Sentence examples for have been proportionate from inspiring English sources

Today Harris told Mr Justice Ouseley that "it could not possibly have been proportionate for the conduct committee to have effectively adopted a 'one strike and you are out for good' approach".

How could it have been proportionate?

the prosecutor's actions have been proportionate, given the serious of the alleged offences.

"A response was legitimate but under international law it should have been proportionate and precise.

In 2009 the House of Lords ruled that the 2001 Oxford Circus "crowd control measures" had been proportionate.

Home Office minister Vernon Coaker, who initially claimed Kent police's approach had been "proportionate and appropriate", was forced to apologise to MPs after the Guardian revealed the 70 police officers he claimed had been injured in clashes with protesters had actually suffered from unrelated ailments such as bee stings and toothache.

Far from being "Stalinist", that would have been the proportionate, liberal and sensible thing.

Bombing the tunnels through which Gazans smuggle weapons would have been a proportionate response, if Israel had stopped there, and the same is true of airstrikes on certain Hamas targets.

Apart from the also intriguing question as to how on earth seven years of covert surveillance could have been a proportionate way to monitor their activities, there is also the minor issue of liability under ordinary UK law (Bond's conduct would have been regulated by the Intelligence Services Act, but Kennedy was not a spy).

Furthermore, one may have expected that glucose transporter expression would have been inversely proportionate to blood glucose level [ 40, 42, 43].

The ruling stated that the surveillance was "not proportionate and could not reasonably have been believed to be proportionate".